Following the Twitter support in iOS 5, Apple added the support of Facebook in iOS 6. In the past, developers have to make use of the Facebook and Twitter API to integrate the sharing feature in their apps. With the built-in support, it’s much easier to add these social features to your own app.

In this short tutorial, we will show you how to build Twitter and Facebook sharing feature in your app. As usual, we’ll build a simple app together as we believe there is no better way to teach programming than “get your hand dirty”.

Social Framework in iOS 6

The iOS 6 introduces a new framework known as the “Social Framework”. The Social framework lets you integrate your app with any supported social networking services. Presently, it supports Facebook, Twitter and Sina Weibo. The framework gives you a standard interface to interact with different social networks and it shields you from learning the internals. You don’t have to worry about the Twitter/Facebook APIs, how to handle network connection, handle single sign-on, etc. The social framework simplifies everything. You just need to write a few lines of code to bring up the composer and users can tweet / publish Facebook post within your app.[Read more…]